States can declare anything they want to, but do you think that many companies -- particularly those with federal contracts or a presence in multiple states -- will actually stop sending tax money directly to the feds? I wish they would, but in my opinion few corporate executives have both the proper political inclination and the spine to stand up to threats from the feds.
When you carefully talk about pounds, you must specify if the context is not clear. Thus there are pounds force (lbf.) and pounds mass (lbm.).
When you deal in lbf, the mass unit is a slug. Then you deal in lbm, the force unit is a poundal.
The purpose of patents is to prevent "secret science".
An inventor patents his invention to indirectly get protection for his invention, for which he trades the loss of the secrecy of his invention. While it does spur inovation to some degree, it also spurs production because the risks of cutthroat competition are temporarily reduced.
By patenting, an idea becomes public knowledge that others can build on. Usually, the idea can be licensed, so both the licensor and the licensee win. Civilization advances; ideas that might have been lost forever are preserved.
Most medical expenses come late in life. Those people do not continue contributing to the economy if they recover, they continue burdening the economy.
Socialized medicine causes doctors to flee the country or choose another profession or retire. This has happened in England, with the result that doctors from much poorer countries enter the country. Such as the doctors who made those Mercedes-bombs within the last week. Cheerio, fool!
Mandatory insurance is just about making you take responsibility for the costs and risks that you impose on society by having a body susceptible to injury and carrying diseases. If you or your employer doesn't pay for your health care, the rest of us will end up paying for it.
That's really dishonest. You completely ignore the possibility of a person paying his medical expenses without insurance.
Hell. Some of those people leaving Massachusetts are going to come to New Hampshire. They're going to continue voting Democrat, and they'll ruin the last free state on the East Coast.
Water in large quantities is a natural monopoly only in cities. In rural areas, not only is it not a natural monopoly, it's not even available commercially. You have to get water from a well.
In small quantities, many fools buy bottled water. Hardly a monopoly.
The government's effect on food prices is mixed. Milk has price supports and in some places mandatory minimum retail prices. Government pays farmers not to grow in some places and will destroy crops grown in places where it's not allowed. This raises prices. Policies meant to support small farms promote inefficient farms. Promoting ethanol fuel from corn has dramatically raised corn prices.
If government meddling in farms stopped the price of food in dollars would change in an unpredictable manner, but the price in terms of hours worked would drop because part of it would not be syphoned off by the government.
Cost is not the only reason that people don't buy insurance.
I don't buy it because I consider insurance cowardly, thus immoral. I take care of myself and invest the money I save to develop a liquid buffer for emergencies. Long term, the odds are I'll live a much better life because there's no third party leeching off my life.
Rush Limbaugh claims he doesn't buy insurance; he's rich, he can pay his medical bills.
When someone can't pay at the hospital, no-one pays directly; it's a dead loss to the hospital. So as not to go broke, the hospital raises its rates for everyone, in some cases several hundred percent. So the insurance companies pay and individuals pay. It depends upon the particular hospital and the bargaining ability of the individual to determine who gets screwed worse.
Diesel engines are more expensive than gasoline engines, which is one reason that they aren't popular with the buying public. Another is that they're slow to start in cold weather. Body rot and other mechanical failures can make a car useless before the engine fails; this reduces the value of a highly durable engine. The manufacturers are happy to build them if people will buy them and the government allows it.
Our politicians are so corrupt because politics by its very nature attracts corrupt people. They ARE mostly bad people. However, there are people in high level politics who are of high moral quality, and there are also those of mixed quality. Also consider that there are many systems of morality, so that most people who are objectively bad don't consider themselves to be bad.
There are varieties of corruption: power lusters, bribe takers, lackeys, traitors, perverts, and many more. Severe penalties aren't going to stop all of them, and they need to be punished according both to the nature and the severity of their crime. They also need to be thoroughly vetted before getting into high office (a process that Clinton badly damaged) and something needs to be done on a daily basis to keep them in line.
C. Northcote Parkinson proposed that heads of state be put to death at the end of their term of office, in order to discourage an excessive number of candidates not willing to sacrifice heavily for their country.
Plame's status as a CIA agent was already public knowledge before Libby mentioned it. It is not possible to divulge a secret if the facts divulged aren't secret.
The trouble with accusing modern presidents of treason is that it's hard to find one who doesn't qualify if the words are interpreted in a manner encouraging the charge. My history is spotty, but I can think of clear examples for FDR, Nixon, Carter, Clinton, and Reagan. A more important question is whether the actions that could be narrowly construed as treason were actually good for the country in the long run; in that case (in my opinion) Clinton is the only one guilty beyond any possible doubt.
The Lewinsky affair was voluntary, but there was nothing voluntary about Clinton's rape of Juanita Broaddrick. There's good reason to believe that Clinton committed multiple rapes and was an accessory to murder.
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It is no consolation to say "I know we're slaves now, but we took a long time to get there."
States can declare anything they want to, but do you think that many companies -- particularly those with federal contracts or a presence in multiple states -- will actually stop sending tax money directly to the feds? I wish they would, but in my opinion few corporate executives have both the proper political inclination and the spine to stand up to threats from the feds.
When you carefully talk about pounds, you must specify if the context is not clear. Thus there are pounds force (lbf.) and pounds mass (lbm.). When you deal in lbf, the mass unit is a slug. Then you deal in lbm, the force unit is a poundal.
It's very annoying, having to get up every four minutes to put a new record on the turntable while listening to a piano concerto.
An inventor patents his invention to indirectly get protection for his invention, for which he trades the loss of the secrecy of his invention. While it does spur inovation to some degree, it also spurs production because the risks of cutthroat competition are temporarily reduced.
By patenting, an idea becomes public knowledge that others can build on. Usually, the idea can be licensed, so both the licensor and the licensee win. Civilization advances; ideas that might have been lost forever are preserved.
Most medical expenses come late in life. Those people do not continue contributing to the economy if they recover, they continue burdening the economy.
Socialized medicine causes doctors to flee the country or choose another profession or retire. This has happened in England, with the result that doctors from much poorer countries enter the country. Such as the doctors who made those Mercedes-bombs within the last week. Cheerio, fool!
Hell. Some of those people leaving Massachusetts are going to come to New Hampshire. They're going to continue voting Democrat, and they'll ruin the last free state on the East Coast.
In small quantities, many fools buy bottled water. Hardly a monopoly.
If government meddling in farms stopped the price of food in dollars would change in an unpredictable manner, but the price in terms of hours worked would drop because part of it would not be syphoned off by the government.
-- A partnership between private industry and government. This is known as what?
-- Your money is nominally yours, but its use is mandated by the government. This is known as what?
That's right, this is known as fascism.
I don't buy it because I consider insurance cowardly, thus immoral. I take care of myself and invest the money I save to develop a liquid buffer for emergencies. Long term, the odds are I'll live a much better life because there's no third party leeching off my life.
Rush Limbaugh claims he doesn't buy insurance; he's rich, he can pay his medical bills.
When someone can't pay at the hospital, no-one pays directly; it's a dead loss to the hospital. So as not to go broke, the hospital raises its rates for everyone, in some cases several hundred percent. So the insurance companies pay and individuals pay. It depends upon the particular hospital and the bargaining ability of the individual to determine who gets screwed worse.
The numbers you cite for alcohols are much richer than for gasoline, not leaner as you state.
Diesel engines are more expensive than gasoline engines, which is one reason that they aren't popular with the buying public. Another is that they're slow to start in cold weather. Body rot and other mechanical failures can make a car useless before the engine fails; this reduces the value of a highly durable engine. The manufacturers are happy to build them if people will buy them and the government allows it.
There are varieties of corruption: power lusters, bribe takers, lackeys, traitors, perverts, and many more. Severe penalties aren't going to stop all of them, and they need to be punished according both to the nature and the severity of their crime. They also need to be thoroughly vetted before getting into high office (a process that Clinton badly damaged) and something needs to be done on a daily basis to keep them in line.
C. Northcote Parkinson proposed that heads of state be put to death at the end of their term of office, in order to discourage an excessive number of candidates not willing to sacrifice heavily for their country.
So, according to you, the quality of a president is determined by his poll ratings. Wow.
Rosenberg.
Plame's status as a CIA agent was already public knowledge before Libby mentioned it. It is not possible to divulge a secret if the facts divulged aren't secret.
The trouble with accusing modern presidents of treason is that it's hard to find one who doesn't qualify if the words are interpreted in a manner encouraging the charge. My history is spotty, but I can think of clear examples for FDR, Nixon, Carter, Clinton, and Reagan. A more important question is whether the actions that could be narrowly construed as treason were actually good for the country in the long run; in that case (in my opinion) Clinton is the only one guilty beyond any possible doubt.
The Lewinsky affair was voluntary, but there was nothing voluntary about Clinton's rape of Juanita Broaddrick. There's good reason to believe that Clinton committed multiple rapes and was an accessory to murder.